Dennis Lehn
Cologne (ots)
Dennis Lehn is the perfect contact for ambitious students who want to get the best out of themselves and their studies. As a professional learning coach, he founded the “Successful Studies” academy – a contact point for everyone who wants to achieve top marks in order to secure top career opportunities on the job market. In the following, he names five mistakes that students make when it comes to achieving the best in their studies.
Top marks in your studies are not a question of a lack of intelligence, but only a question of the right strategy. Who does not know it, the exam phase is getting closer, the hours in the library are getting longer and free time is getting more and more into the background. When the hoped-for good grades are not achieved despite the time and energy invested, the frustration is great. Nevertheless, there are always those students who get very good grades, but apparently have to do less for it than others. What are these students doing differently now? What are they learning and what are the things that make an A-student compared to the average? Dennis Lehn is a learning coach and founder of the “Successful Studies” academy and has experienced exactly that himself. Today he shows students how to get top grades and optimize their learning behavior without pressure and stress, in order to create the best long-term conditions for their dream job. Below he has summarized five mistakes that students make during the semester and what prevents them from getting top grades.
1. Not structuring the semester properly
Most students start the semester without a plan, without a clear structure, clear objectives and the right learning systems. It usually goes like this: At the beginning there is a motivated atmosphere and you have big plans: stay on the ball right from the start, start learning earlier, keep learning and finally get better grades. But this first phase is quickly followed by phase two: Here, after initial motivation, most students realize that they quickly fall back into their old patterns, the learning strategy just doesn’t fit, the learning material is lagging behind and you don’t even know where and how to deal with everything. The mountain of tasks is getting bigger and the motivation is in the basement. In phase three, at the end of the semester, the pressure finally increases. The hours at the desk are getting longer and free time and sleep are being scaled back more and more. The result: average grades despite a stressful exam phase.
Instead of going through these three phases of the semester as just described, they have to be approached and redefined from the ground up. It’s about establishing an overall system so that you know what needs to be done at each stage of the semester. This starts with setting the right goals, continues with the definition of clear routines and structures both for everyday university life and privately, through to determining the learning systems for the individual subjects. This is followed by phase two, which is about letting the already established routine run free and simply implementing the schedule for the semester. You know exactly what needs to be done, when, and more importantly, how to do it. This is what makes a perfect overall system. In this way, even in the third phase, when the exams are due, you can reconcile university and private life and also study for several exams at the same time and write top marks.
2. Allow yourself to be held back by inner blocks
The constant procrastination, the lack of motivation to start learning, to stay on the ball all the time, not really trusting yourself to achieve excellent results in your studies are among the biggest blockages for many students. These and similar problems have a specific background. The inner voice of man is shaped by past experiences. Based on precisely these experiences, beliefs and convictions are formed, which on the one hand determine the way we see the world and also influence thinking and acting. For example, if you assume that you did not get the desired grades in the past despite a lot of study effort, the mind will continue to assume that the hard work will not be worthwhile in the future. This negative belief can develop over time into conviction and then prevent the desired results from appearing.
In many cases, these and many other limiting beliefs and beliefs lead to a kind of self-sabotage and ultimately to us putting things off and not doing what we actually planned to do. Here, too, the solution is to identify these beliefs and blockages, to dissolve them and to implement a so-called winner mentality. This is also addressed during the coaching by Dennis Lehn.
3. Pursue the wrong learning strategy
Learning summaries, as they are common in school, are only partially suitable for studying. But why is that? On the one hand, the volume and complexity of the teaching material is significantly higher. This means that breaking down a 500-page slide script into a 100-page learning summary takes an immense amount of time. It is not uncommon for you to find out at the end of the exam phase that this method has not really helped you and that there is no time left for learning. On the other hand, most learning summaries are simply written “linearly” or in the form of keywords. However, this is not helpful for our brain. This is structured in such a way that it wants to understand connections and link new knowledge with old. However, this is not possible with such learning summaries. It is therefore essential to prepare the content “brain-friendly” and to use an individually suitable learning method for each subject in order to store knowledge in the long term.
4. The preparation effort is underestimated
The time required to study for exams is very often underestimated. As a result, there is so little time in the exam phase that on the one hand a kind of bulimia learning is practiced and on the other hand it is only possible to study for the next or the most difficult exam – all other subjects are sidelined. With this approach, you lose potential and in most cases you don’t get good grades either.
In order to prevent this disaster in the future, it is important to adapt your learning strategy significantly, to introduce routines and to create realistic schedules. These schedules should be adapted to the individual situation and be prepared on a semester, month and week basis. In this way, even the large and sometimes complex amounts of material can be managed and saved over the long term – the desired grades can also be realistically achieved.
5. Many students can no longer make up for the knowledge gaps
In the last week before the exam, when most students still spend hours in the library and have to do without sleep and free time, the situation is significantly different for straight-A students in this phase. They know that the grade they get at the end of the semester is just feedback from the process. And this process starts on day one of the semester with the right preparation. So if you stayed on the ball throughout the semester and learned with a plan and structure, you can relax in the last few weeks. Here only the repetition and deepening of the material already learned are on the program – real gaps in knowledge can no longer be filled.
Would you also like to secure a decisive advantage over your fellow students, achieve top grades in your studies and thus secure the perfect conditions for your dream job? Then register now Dennis Lehn and arrange a free consultation!
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